setting fire to myself

[mini mansell]

i want to be able to set fire to my lower leg.
Or rather, my lower trouser leg.

my initial idea is heavy leather trousers. and either fire gell, or firewick sown around the leg and fueled with parafin (coleman spirit)

any other suggestions gratefully recieved

[jester]

Steve Rawlings does something similar with a leather hat and I think he just pours lighter fuel (petrol) on just before the show.

I would experiment on the leather while you aren't wearing the trousers first.

[Evan Young]

I'm a little confused. I thought petrol was the brit term for for gasoline. Lighter fuel has got to be different right?

[em]

fire wick and english lighter fluid will do it, just don't sew it all the way around the leg....only so that you have a certain control over it...it does work though...or you sew the wick length ways up the thigh..depending on how much L fluid you use it can burn quite high that way.

[Stretch]

For fire safty tips see: http://www.foreworks.com/

[Stretch]

new fire proof fabric -this is what Ringling uses.


"We are not aware of any fabric that has the same protection against flame and heat. This is an entirely different approach to the problem,"says Thatcher, chief executive of Chapman Innovations, a six-employee startup in Salt Lake City, Utah"

." Larry Dixon, a two-time national champion drag racer, won't climb into his 8,000hp dragster unless he's clad in CarbonX. Thatcher got him to wear the CarbonX logo on his sleeve. Brian Miser, who sets himself on fire and is catapulted out of a cannon every night for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &Bailey Circus, is another fan: "The Nomex suit only lasted one jump. I couldn't wear it again. The CarbonX suits last 100 jumps."

http://www.forbes.com/global/2003/1222/066.html